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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: May I continue without interruption, please? It would be absurd if the committee were to refuse to provide Sergeant McCabe with a transcript. I am happy to have Ms Mellissa English come before us next week to give the committee advice. However, the idea that we could bury this by refusing to release the transcript is unthinkable. There is great interest in what is in the transcript. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I propose that we release the transcript to Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I can make that proposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I thank the Vice Chairman for that. No, I think that if the advice that we are getting is correct, that it has to go to CPP first, then we should ask CPP for permission to release the transcript to Maurice McCabe.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I do not accept that. Of course I accept everybody's bona fides. There is no doubt about that. The reason they say these things are obviously genuine and they obviously do not have any wish to be on the 6 o'clock news. That is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I think it is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes, this is in the interests of the public and it is very, very important. I am not suggesting that this is released to the public immediately. I am saying that the idea that we could refuse - which is what we are doing - Sergeant McCabe permission to look at his own transcript, of his own evidence, is absurd. If it has to go to the CPP - which I was not aware of so this is a new...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: What is the proposal at the moment?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: What are we doing about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: The Deputy is not the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: No. It is not a matter of noting it. I vehemently oppose it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: You do not want to vote. Is that what the Vice Chairman is saying?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: What is the decision then? What is the decision of the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: For the reasons that I have already given, I totally dissent from that decision.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine.

Down's Syndrome (Equality of Access) Bill 2013: Second Stage (7 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I will be brief. I congratulate Deputy Finian McGrath on introducing the Bill. When I heard that it had been accepted by the Government, my understanding was that its provisions would be implemented at an early date. I was disappointed, therefore, when the Minister of State said, "I wish to make clear that the Government does not intend to oppose the Bill." That does not mean that he...

Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I find this matter disturbing, particularly in light of the damage being done not as a result of this debate but rather on foot of the incidents that have occurred in the past two days. I also find disturbing the absolute - and perhaps deliberate - lack of clarity which obtains as a result of contradictory and vague statements being made, a lack of information being provided and the use of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: I take the clerk's point about a precedent, but I would regard it as a welcome break with a fundamental flaw in the procedures if we were to make a fundamental change. A fundamental change is needed if a person who gives evidence to the committee cannot ask for his or her own transcript. There is something wrong with the procedures. We should make that break and show an example to the...